Usually means: Supports dome over square room.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. pendentive: Merriam-Webster
  2. pendentive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pendentive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pendentive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pendentive: Wordnik
  6. pendentive: Wiktionary
  7. pendentive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pendentive: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Pendentive, pendentive: Dictionary.com
  10. Pendentive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Pendentive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pendentive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Pendentive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pendentive: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pendentive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pendentive: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. pendentive: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pendentive: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pendentive: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pendentive)

noun:  (architecture) The concave triangular sections of vaulting that provide the transition between a dome and the square base on which it is set and transfer the weight of the dome.

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